Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-19
ODDS AND ENDS.

Gettysburg is becoming quite a summer re-
sort
Alaska has one newspaper, The Juneau Free
Press.
Boston's new public library building will
cost 100000
1t is claimed that the telephone was in
vented in 1856.
The Philadelphia truss factories turn out
over 100000 trusses per year.
Albany N Y, has fund for disabled
firemen amounting to $4,000.
Since 1862 seventy-fve Sandwich Islanders
have gone as foreign missionaries
The Floridans are gleeful Not day, they
say, has been intoerably hot this summer
Thirteen cities and 275 towns and villages
of Massachusetts are under prohibition this
year
The cotton mills in two southern states ex-
ported 80, 100000 yards of cotton cloth last
year.
Forty well known families at Newport,
usually leaders in social festivities, are in deep
mourning.
There are forty Hebrew millionaires in
New York. The richest is Max We'll, who is
rated at IS, 100000
In Sweden and Norway it is a crime to
make any profit on the sale of liquor; it must
be dispensed at cost
There are over 100000 children in the
United States between l and IL years old
whose lives are insured.
The transportation managers say that pleas
ure travel this summer has been larger than
ever in their experience
Russia will celebrate, on Oct 80, the fifth
eth anniversary of the opening of her first
railroad. That country now has 1900 miles
of railroad.
The Oldest lawsuit in Illinois has been on
the docket for forty-two years. 1t began
about SO hog, and has cost the principals
about 81, 900.
| A project is on foot for an international
cremation congress, to be held in Berlin in
1889. At the congress there will also be an
exhibition of designs for crematories, urns
and collins.
A hospital for animals will soon be erected
in London, and at the same time free dispen-
saries will be opened, where the horses
donkeys cats, dogs and birds of the poor can
be treated when i'll.
The Troy, N. Y, Electric Light company
is having wagon made for special service
at fires. 1t will be provided with apparatu:
to cut the wires wherever they endanger the
service of the fremen
All the Venetian gondoliers have gone Out
on strike because a night service has beer
started Oh the Grand canal All the bakers
in the city have also gone on strike, and the
walters in hotels and cafes threaten to go out
A new "plaza de torres" is to be built in the
City of Mexico which will equal any of the
most celebrated plazas de torres in Spain. The
building will be covered with glass, that the
bull fights may not be interrupted by rainy
weather
A British sea captain says that whales ar,
increasing in numbers so fast that accident
to ships from running into them will soon b,
of frequent occurrence. A sailing ship unde
a fve-knot breeze might as well strike tire,
as an old bull whale.
A party of Japanese have bought 400 acre
of land in the foothills near Campo Seco
Calaveras county, Cal, and they propose t.
irrigate through mining ditch from tn
Mokelumne river and convert it into a te,
farm. 1t is said that japanese have expert
mented with tea In the vicinity and proved |
a success
The famous English "bone SETTER" Mr.
Hutton, who died recently had no learning
He neither "walked the hospitals" nor eve
learned the names Of all the crevices in tn
human skeleton If he had had all the bone
of the human body thrown down before hir
he would have been at great pains to arrang
them in order. Yet trained men sent patient
with dislocations to him.
Tho Rarlin Hofpacbr;chtan announces n,
flcially: "Some time ago domestic as well q
foreign journals stated that Professor Mac
kenzie had received about 1900 marks fc
the treatment Of the Crown Prince, stat'
ment which was here and elsewhere variousl
commented upon. We are automatically il
formed that the sum of 81, 200 marks cover
only the two trips from and to England {
the British physician. The fee itself is by Il
means included in it, and is left to the discr
ton of their royal highnesseS"